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navel orange

noun

  1. a seedless variety of orange having at the apex a navellike formation containing a small secondary fruit.


navel orange

noun

  1. a sweet orange that is usually seedless and has at its apex a navel-like depression enclosing an underdeveloped secondary fruit
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of navel orange1

First recorded in 1885–90
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He approached a navel orange tree with some scorched branches.

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The miraculous orange was renamed the Washington navel orange.

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But here along the coast, lemons and satsumas come in during the fall, so I bake these cookies using satsumas instead of navel oranges once the satsumas are ready to pick.

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After a cold spell decimated Riverside’s navel orange crop in 1913, the residents of Pachappa Camp left to look for work in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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He’d already been through four months of chemotherapy, and now Dr. John Waldhausen, a surgeon specializing in neuroblastoma cases, was going to remove a tumor the size of a navel orange from his abdomen.

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